What we’re reading
What We’re Reading This Month: Choosing Wisely, Developing Ethical Skills, Authenticity in Adolescence
Our ethics consult team meets monthly to review cases and to self-educate. This month, we are looking at three recently published journal articles: 1. Cassel C, Guest J. Choosing wisely: helping physicians and patients make smart decisions about their care. JAMA: The Journal Of The American Medical Association [serial online]. May 2, 2012;307(17):1801-1802. Once upon [...]
What we’re reading in bioethics February 2012
1. Decision making capacity in older adults Mayo A, Wallhagen M. Considerations of informed consent and decision-making competence in older adults with cognitive impairment. Research In Gerontological Nursing [serial online]. April 2009;2(2):103-111. Available from: MEDLINE, 2. Questionable capacity and the guidance of living wills VanderWalde A. Clinical ethics case report: questionable capacity and the guidance [...]
What We’re Reading: Factoring Noncompliance, Use of Social Media
The ethics consult group at my hospital meets monthly to go over cases and discuss readings. For July, we read a couple of older articles on whether and how to factor a patient’s possible noncompliance into treatment and discharge plans. We also looked at an American Journal of Bioethics “Trending” article by Summer Johnson McGee. [...]
Review: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
Although I periodically pledge to use the word “No”, it rarely sticks, which is why I find myself writing a blog post on Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach (W. W. Norton, 2003). Later today I will lead a discussion of Stiff with a group of local high school honors students [...]
What We’re Reading: Shared Decision Making is the New Autonomy
Our ethics consult team meets monthly to review cases, provide support for ongoing cases, and self-educate. Here is what we are reading this month: 1. “Shaping Patients’ Decisions“, J. S. Swindell , PhD; Amy L. McGuire , JD , PhD; and Scott D. Halpern , MD , PhD, CHEST 2011; 139(2):424–429 Many physicians struggle to [...]
What We’re Reading this Month: DNR orders, and certification for ethics consultants
… a monthly feature that shares what our Ethics Consult Team is reading and discussing. 1. A new article from the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Why They Have Failed and How to Fix Them by Jackie Yuen, Carrington Reid, and Michael D. Fetters. If you do not have access the the [...]
What We’re Reading This Month
Here’s what the Ethics Consult Team at EMMC is reading this month: Links: Most Americans Are Still Confused About Health Care Two short articles from the August 1, 2010 Medical Ethics Advisor, “Physician-patient collaboration strategies” and “When the patient wants to go home to die” Holding the Hand, by Jordan M. Gutovich in JAMA Click [...]
